Sacramento City Firefighters Rescue Man From Fire

Firefighters rescued a man from an apartment fire this morning, one of three blazes that burned residences in the immediate Sacramento area.

Fire officials are investigating the cause of the fires that damaged two houses and an apartment in three different parts of Sacramento County early this morning.

The rescue happened after Sacramento Fire Department personnel responded to a fire north of the city limits that began about 1:24 a.m. at an apartment at 2732 Rio Linda Boulevard, Capt. Jim Doucette said.

The single-alarm fire started in the kitchen, he said.

Firefighters rescued a man who was in a bedroom from the blaze, Doucette said. He suffered radiation-type burns from the heat and smoke inhalation and was taken to a local hospital, where he is in critical condition, he said.

The house had fire alarms, but it is unknown whether they were working.

“We have no idea yet how it started,” Doucette said.

In the southern part of the county, Wilton firefighters were called when a single-alarm fire began at 2:47 a.m. at a home in the 8700 block of Early Times Lane.

Firefighters remain on scene, the dispatcher said.

Sacramento firefighters also quickly extinguished a small kitchen fire that began about 5:13 a.m. at a home near the intersection of Highbridge and Rosehall ways in the Meadowview area of south Sacramento, Doucette said.

Story by SacBee